The Barossa serves as home to a wonderful array of birds, if you’re into that sort of thing. (I am, I admit, though I am not a twitcher yet.) From wrens to kookaburras, rosellas to pardalotes and boobooks, you can[…]

Ah, Sunday in the Barossa, waking to the sound of church bells ringing and wine bottles crashing into neighbours’ recycling bins. This Sunday was nothing special, yet I realised that everything I ate came from the Barossa Farmers Market held[…]

Way back at the beginning of Barossa Dirt, I wrote about tripping over a peacock. I didn’t hurt the peacock, but it wasn’t a very nice experience for me or the bird. I have recently made some amends for that.[…]

There’s nothing quite like a lineup of 50 wines staring you in the face at 9:30 in the morning. I know winemakers can go through hundreds of samples in a day, teasing out the intricacies of smells and flavours, but[…]

Yalumba Winemaker Sam Wigan tells us the first Vermentino grapes arrived at the winery early this week from the Reichsteins’ vineyard in Renmark. We got the first ripe bunch(es) off before a chance of rain this afternoon. The rest are coming[…]

Quick change of plans here. I was planning to write about winemakers, specifically bored winemakers, waiting for the grapes to ripen. In this long, cool vintage, grape picking is starting a good 3-4 weeks behind normal. For instance, by this[…]

One side of the Barossa: historical wineries, gnarly old vines, traditional foods, a true sense of place. Another side: Twitter, FourSquare, the big wide world online and drawn to the Barossa. Two scruffy wine guys in a blue Kombi van[…]

This was originally post by Yalumba’s Jane Ferrari at Yalumba Stories. When a visitor came from the UK recently, we spent a good part of the day touring both the Barossa Valley floor and the Eden Valley high country. I[…]

One of the great things about living in the Barossa is the wine. Or should I say, it is the great thing, aside from the people and the scenery and the history. It is impossible to taste and know every wine here …